tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69480865074975061652024-03-12T17:39:45.489-07:00Meditative ArtsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948086507497506165.post-18274870307041963352021-01-01T12:14:00.002-08:002021-01-01T12:14:22.072-08:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTG2S4UzTDG8t0_OnVwFWEmICSoOw3cNjG_VOqfarn3BudA3uf0S88dNg69LUeWQI6PV6pzkImXCd_oT7z8EGl57MYtQYNYzc5xxhyphenhyphenwAfm1RUeJGaNI8V_AGCC7WvknftJckdDM97kbmFr/s1080/hexagon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1080" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTG2S4UzTDG8t0_OnVwFWEmICSoOw3cNjG_VOqfarn3BudA3uf0S88dNg69LUeWQI6PV6pzkImXCd_oT7z8EGl57MYtQYNYzc5xxhyphenhyphenwAfm1RUeJGaNI8V_AGCC7WvknftJckdDM97kbmFr/w560-h508/hexagon.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This hexagonal piece is made from six almost identical Zentangles on Renaissance 3Z (triangular) tiles. They are almost identical, but every other one has the white spinner going in the opposite direction. Maria (Zentangle Founder) led this as part of Project Pack 8. My husband, unbeknownst to me, ordered this perfect frame for it. </div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948086507497506165.post-31310739739173230192020-12-30T11:19:00.002-08:002021-01-01T12:27:11.369-08:00<p>Each year, Zentangle presents the 12 Days of Zentangle Project Pack. Everyday there is a new video. I often fall behind on project packs, and do them months after they come out, but this time I wanted to do the Zentangles on the day they were released, just to feel like I was tangling with a lot of other people, worldwide. This year's theme was Renaisance tiles, the beautiful beige colored papers that Renaissance painters like Leonardo used for drawings. Here are my Zentangles. Day 8 was my favorite. 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This is a Zentangle Compass Rose. It took me four weeks to finish, and I am very happy it is done. I made so many mistakes, from wobbly lines to every sort of inexactitude, but it doesn't even matter. Art is partly telling the critic inside to go away because I'm happy. And Zentangle always says, "No Mistakes." Plain persistence gets you a long way. </div>
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Of course I was drawn to this idea because of the hundreds of hours I spent on night watch in the waters off Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Warm nights with silvery black water as far as you could see in every direction. For my four hour watch, the tiller in my hand, my eyes wandering up in the sky and the sails, then always coming back to check the course. To be on course, to know the direction. No mistakes. </div>
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Steering by a star made it all easy. They taught me to line up a mast or a cross beam or the pointed top of a sail with a star. Then just keep them lined up. It's easier than trying to keep the compass needle lined up on a certain degree on the compass rose. Steering by one star works well for a long time. Eventually you have to pick a different star if you want to stay on course.</div>
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And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;</div>
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And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,</div>
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And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.</div>
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I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide</div>
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And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.</div>
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To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;</div>
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And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.</div>
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This was so much fun. This was tangled along with Maria, Zentangle founder,with co-founder Rick providing further commentary in Project Pack 07, Lesson 01. It is fun to go on an artistic journey with these two guides. </div>
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The finished mosaic of four tiles is very magical looking. The gold Gelly Roll pen comes out very shiny, just like gold leaf, and it all looks encrusted with jewels on the new grey Fabriano paper. </div>
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These are four Bijou tiles.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948086507497506165.post-17502616742362596692019-10-07T11:22:00.000-07:002019-10-07T11:23:40.332-07:00Buy suitcase based on my paintingHi Everyone,<br />
The suitcase that has fabric printed with one of my paintings is now for sale. You can get it on my brother-in-law Bruce's Etsy website. I love mine, it is so pretty. it comes large and small. Bruce and his wife Millie have made bags since the early 1980's., and they know what they are doing. It's so pretty, I just love mine.<br />
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You can get it at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/PeakFamilyGifts" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" target="_blank">https://Etsy.PeakFamilyGifts</a> or you can just go to Etsy and search for PeakFamilyGifts.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948086507497506165.post-19950307709320633202019-08-26T11:12:00.002-07:002019-08-26T11:12:22.287-07:00My painting on a suitcaseMy wonderful brother-in-law Bruce Clancy had a business in the Reno area making bags for many years. Originally he made the Quick Shot, a camera bag for hikers. Stu worked with him on the Quick Shot and they sold many all over the west. Then came the Cool Tote, and for some years we got fabulous gifts of fabric bag coolers in every shape and size that we still treasure today. Most recently Bruce and his wife Millie, who has a very good eye for excellent graphical patterns, expanded into making lunch bags and just plain gorgeous purses and bags for women.<br />
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On a recent visit with us, I was very surprised that they thought one of my recent alcohol ink paintings would make a good suitcase pattern. He asked me to get a scan, and it took me a while to find someone who could scan at 1200 dpi! Finally I sent Bruce the picture.<br />
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Yesterday I got this back. I am so excited, and trying to buy one ASAP. I think they will be $100, so let me know if you are interested. I think Bruce is still working out some details of monogramming etc. Of course, I am not really trying to sell them, just want to share how much fun this is!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948086507497506165.post-2884225672535972672019-08-16T17:08:00.002-07:002019-08-16T17:08:54.830-07:00GemstonesI have been drawing Eni Oken's gemstones. So much fun. Colored pencil mostly. I never realized the potential of colored pencils until now. The ornate bezels add a lot to the stones. Enjoy...<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948086507497506165.post-10349837397401486242019-08-15T10:03:00.001-07:002019-08-15T10:03:17.524-07:00Here is the blue Crazy Gold Auraknot that I promised. Now I have a green one in my mind. Have to go buy the paper.<br />
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This was so much fun. Eni Oken has a downloadable pdf course called Crazy Gold Auraknot. I think it costs $12 but am not sure. I can't seem to get back to that screen now that I already bought it . </div>
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She starts with the traditional Auraknot tangle pattern, but then she lets it get freeform and wonky and more fun. The ribbons travel over and under one another in a cool way. For $3 apiece I also purchased a Fine and an Extra Fine PenTouch pen she recommended. They are made by the Zentangler's friend Sakura, and are brighter than the Gellyrolls I had been using for gold, which look fine on white, but can't really hold their own on burgundy colored paper. I bought some colored paper in blue too. Working on that now, hope to show you soon! </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948086507497506165.post-47794798656231601832019-02-05T11:35:00.000-08:002019-02-05T11:37:57.851-08:00Two Upcoming ClassesI am going to teach two Introduction to Zentangle<sup><strike><span style="font-size: xx-small;">TM</span></strike> </sup> classes in March. If you have already taken Introduction to Zentangle, come anyway, and I will customize some new things for you so you are not bored with repetition. Please call me if you have any questions at 530-852-2260 or email me at <a href="mailto:maryhelen@maryhelenfein.com">maryhelen@maryhelenfein.com</a>. I hope you can make it.<br />
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<b>Sierra College Community Ed, Roseville, Saturday, March 16</b><br />
The first class is at Sierra College Community Ed in downtown Roseville. It will be held on Saturday, March 16, from 10am to 1pm. It takes place in a very nice classroom with lots of good tech, overhead projector, Internet, large screen, etc. Cost is $39, plus a $10 materials fee that you pay to me at the class. If you already have the Zentangle kit, just bring your own. You can call Sierra College to register at 916-781-6280, but it's okay to just show up if you need to. You can also register online at their website - just click this link<br />
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<b>Dawn's Hallmark Art Supply, Auburn, Saturday, March 2</b><br />
The second class is at Dawn's Hallmark Art Supply in Auburn. This is a fabulous art supply store, my favorite in the foothills. The class will be on Saturday, March 2, from 10am to noon or maybe a bit later. The class is free, with a $10 materials fee for the Zentangle Kit, and you can bring your own supplies if you have them. Please call me to register, 530-852-2260. You can leave a message if I miss your call. I have two people signed up (a mother and 9-year-old son) and would love to have more, Please come and join us!<br />
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This morning I decided to revisit an old friend, the Zentangle Diva at <a href="http://www.iamthedivaczt.com/" target="_blank">www.IAmTheDivaCZT.com</a>. Every Monday morning she posts a challenge for the week. I used to do them all the time, and many times found inspiration in her prompts, so I returned to her website to see what was up. This week she asked for stripes. </div>
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I drew my stripe string first and started with Betweed, a tangle pattern I have always loved, but recently messed it up and realized I had forgotten how to draw it. I practiced with <a href="http://tanglepatterns.com/2010/09/how-to-draw-betweed-video.html" target="_blank">Maria Thomas's instruction video</a> until I felt confident again. Maria says Betweed looks like woven Moroccan leather, but to me it always looks like something a Native American woman might use for a papoose.</div>
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Then I did a small area of Shattuck, just because how can you do stripes without Shattuck? For the bottom stripe up I used Zander, one of my favorites, but this time I made it a fun, fat and bulging Zander with a few little jewels on the bands. For even more inspiration I got down the Zentangle Primer and used a little spidery guy in the upper left stripe that somehow turned into a triangle. On page 120 of the Primer are about 100 triangle fragments. This is K12. </div>
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Once I had jumped on the fragment and reticula bus, I remembered how much I liked T5, AKA Sleepy Owl Eyes. So in they went. Only the center remained. I wanted something that would tumble across the stripe and burst out with enthusiam. I went for Flux, which didn't quite burst out, but did have plenty of enthusiam. Done. What fun. While I am tangling, I just feel happy.</div>
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A couple of days ago our CZT group met. There are four of us, and we have met for well over a year by now. I am very fond of the women in this group. This month it was my turn to present a project, and I had met Pat Verhagen at ZenAgain in Providence, R.I., last November and seen her Icosahedrons. These are 20 sided figures. I thought they would make a good project for us. Pat was very helpful and very reasonably priced. You can reach her through her wonderfully named store <a href="http://www.cutupandsew.com/" target="_blank">Cut Up And Sew</a> on Palm Coast in Florida. Her well-designed templates made this whole project simple. </div>
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She sent me around a dozen of these Icosahedron templates. This photo shows our CZT group's partly finished efforts.</div>
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And this is my final, double-sided-tape-glued-together icosahedron. I enjoyed this very much.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948086507497506165.post-11123575993784536472019-01-01T17:36:00.000-08:002019-01-01T17:36:01.067-08:00ZenAgain 2018In late November, I attended a seminar for Certified Zentangle Teachers in Providence, R.I. Present at this event were about 200 of the 4,000 CZT's, from all over the world, each of whom is certified by Zentangle's founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas. We have all taken the CZT training and are now allowed to teach. Most of us are devoted to Rick and Maria for a number of reasons. For me, first and foremost it is gratitude for creating the Zentangle form and making it available to us. After that, it is because they are warm and friendly and smart and fun. And amazingly creative. They keep coming up with fascinating ideas for things to try. This seminar, called ZenAgain, was no exception.<br />
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We started out at our first session with kind of a warm up, doing a simple little variation on Crescent Moon, a tangle pattern always included in everybody's "Tile Number One." This is because it illustrates the important Zentangle concept of <i>Aura</i>. When you aura, you outline a shape that is already on the paper, such as the black half moon shapes you see below. And then the auras can be aura'd. I have heard it said, "When in doubt, Aura!" This is a Bijou tile, very small, maybe 2 inches square.<br />
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One of the themes of ZenAgain was deconstructing works by well-known artists who use patterns.We covered three artists, Gustav Klimt, Keith Haring, Ernst Haeckel, this last artist being new to me. In this blog post I will tell you just a little about each, and show a Zentangle I created, inspired by and giving homage to each.</div>
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Klimt painted mostly women, and his work is decorated with patterns. Here is his Woman in Gold.</div>
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You may have seen the film about this painting, starring Helen Mirren. The canvas had been placed in a gallery by the Austrian state, and was so beloved that it was known as the Austrian Mona Lisa. The only problem was that the Nazi's had stolen it from the subject's Jewish family, and the rightful heir to the family brought suit to get it back. After some courtroom battles, the Austrian courts did the right thing.They gave the painting back to her. We had fun at ZenAgain finding well-known tangles in Klimt, such as printemps, and making up other tangles after his patterns. Here's a Zentangle based on Klimt.I wish you could see teh beautiful metallic gold.</div>
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The second artist we looked at was Keith Haring. He was a gay New York Steet artist, during 1980's time of AIDS, from which he died. Here's a sample.</div>
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He used signs and symbols in a language all his own. Here's one I did, based on his earlier work where he was practically making his own alphabet out of shapes and well=known symbols like arrows and hearts and orbits. </div>
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The thrid artist we looked at was Ernst Haeckel. I had never heard of him. Not surprising because he was a biologist, not in any art history courses. I highly recommend the book of his prints, <i>Art Forms in Nature</i>. I simply could not believe that the creatures he drew were real. But they are. I had a similar experience at the Museum of Natural History in New York when I visited the fish room. You might think,<i> ah fish</i>. But think again. There were thousands upon thousands of fish, all stuffed, all pinned to the walls behind glass in a gymnasium-sized room with a 2nd story balcony to double the number of exhibits. I swear that I saw this: a shiny coal black fish who had, sticking out of the top of his square-ish coal black head, mounted on a kind of stem, a second shiny black fish head just like his own. And the second story fish head had a yet a third fish head just like the others sticking out of his head. A fish with a three story head. A true story. New respect for nature's diversity and magic that I still feel now, 30 years later. Haeckel's book is incredible. Here's my Haeckel-inspired jellyfish. Once again the Zentangle team led us through magic worlds.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948086507497506165.post-92135115979135710622018-10-24T08:03:00.002-07:002018-10-24T08:03:26.110-07:00Zentangle, Beyond the BasicsI was very happy to attend a Zentangle seminar at 1440 Multiversity this month. If you are not familiar with 1440, I recommend you check them out at <a href="http://1440.org/">1440.org</a>. It's in Scott's Valley near Santa Cruz, and it's a learning center with many inspiring courses and teachers. Apparently Silicon Valley billionaire Scott Kriens and his wife Joanie purchased the old, shuttered, 75 acre Bethany Christian College campus and built a center that is a real pleasure to visit. They constructed beautiful buildings for residences and for classrooms. They invited meditation teachers such as Jack Kornfield, art innovators like Zentangle founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, and many other interesting leaders of our time. It's a real pleasure to be there.<br />
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Rick and Maria are a delight. Unassuming and full of interesting ideas. The theme was CONTRAST. We did a number of Zentangles that used light and dark creatively. Here are some of mine with a few comments for each. I hope you enjoy them.<br />
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This was my favorite. I love Diva Dance Rock 'N Roll on the left, looking for all the world like a rose. The Knightsbridge with its stripes is so dramatic, and it shows the power of the contrasting black and white. Pokeleaf in the middle provides an unexpected contrast between geometric and organic patterns.</div>
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My very own Egyptian columns. We used white pencils for highlight and dark shading in between the columns. This is a Renaissance (pale brown) Zendala tile, which is what we used for the rest of the program. Rick showed some slides of DaVinci and Raphael drawings on this light brown colored paper to explain why they named them Renaissance tiles. </div>
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My second favorite. The big overall tangle patttern is WayBop, always fun. It's decorated in the middle cross with some orbs (fancy word for little circles or ovals). The light on dark orbs again show the power of contrast. Pokeroot berries give a dramatic contrast against the black background. Maria encouraged us to draw some runaway pokeroot berries creeping into the WayBop. She is very whimsical, and that's a good antidote to being to exacting when tangling.</div>
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The rest of the time was spent on what Rick and Maria christened "dingsplats." These are named for dingbats. In typography, a dingbat is an ornament or a graphical spacer used between chapters or for other decoration. It was timely for me to hear more about dingbats, because our CZT group had just last month spent a happy morning together learning about them and drawing them. Here are my two Dingbats that I did with the CZT group,so you get the idea. This floral tangle patttern is called Kiss. With some Fescu tendrils creeping out of the rectangle. These dingbats were drawn by me, but designed by CZT group menber Cheryl Wilson.</div>
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This one would look good at the start of a chapter. In late-breaking, non-Zentangle news, I am completely thrilled that my new book has been accepted by a publisher. I mention this because I am thinking of having dingbats between the chapters. We shall see. It might work. I also mention this because it is one of the great things to happen to me in life so far!</div>
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This second dingbat uses tangle pattern Mac Rah Mee. I love the woven center that all the tendrils emerge from. This is a dingbat you would put in the corner of a page Again, both these designs are credited to Cheryl. You can see how creative she is!</div>
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Rick and Maria named these last three Zentangles dingSplats. This one uses Knightsbridge. Knightsbridge is a great tangle pattern for experiencing the power of Contrast. You can see how the black and white make a strong statement. I got the idea for why they chose the name dingSplats when Rick said that this one looked like an entire bottle of Knightsbridge had spilled all over the floor. Splat!</div>
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Here is Dingsplat #2. Again a lot of contrast created with black and also using a white pencil again. Lotsa orbs. The Zentangle team was orb-smitten at this seminar, to good effect. The center tangle pattern is called SpokeN. As in spokes.</div>
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Here is the last Dingsplat. It was fun to revisit the amazing tangle pattern 'NZeppel. It was pointed out that 'NZeppel looks like you are squeezing round balloons into rectangular boxes. I loved that. Both Molly and Martha,daughters of Zentangle founder Maria Thomas, did a lot of demonstrating at our seminar. They are both very talented and articulate, and they both maintain the high level of quality set by Rick and Maria in their demos. Here we have more orbs and "lacy loops," which is what they called the little pulled threads around the outside border.</div>
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Once again, just like at my CZT training in 2016, this 1440 Multiversity seminar was just a delight for me. I spent hour after hour in the zone,my favorite place. This fall I am splurging on Zentangle seminars. I'll be at Zenagain, a seminar for CZT's in Providence. It starts in just a few weeks. I will post again when I get back, mid November. Thanks for following all this! I hope it is interesting to you.</div>
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But back to Zentangling, my CZT group met 10 days ago, and Cheryl Wilson guided us through a fun project that you might want to try. Here's how.<br />
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First you fold a piece of paper and cut it the way you would make a snowflake for your Christmas tree:<br />
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By cutting off the excess paper in a curve, about 3 inches along the folded edge (shown here on the left side), I got a six inch snowflake. Next you open up the snowflake:<br />
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Then you trace it onto a piece of paper that is nice enought to Zentangle onto:<br />
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Finally you can Zentangle it. Notice the one I zentangled is rotated from the outline above. You can get more than one look, just by rotating the snowflake a bit and retracing it on a new piece of paper.<br />
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I used a lot of tangles, but I was trying to tune in to ones that would work well together. That's Paradox in the middle, and there are four large areas of Fassettoo, one of my all-time, easy as pie favorites. There are four ovals of Tagh, and the other four darker drama tangles are Fengle. Next to the Tagh areas are four sections of Vincut, a tangle I had never used before but quite like, especially with its sparkle enhancement. B'tweed and Mooka are along the outside. I do love B'Tweed. To me it has a magical quality, some Native American essence that I can't explain. Mooka is very hard for me. I never seem to capture the beautiful beer poster Mucha girl's curling tendrils of hair that it is meant in invoke. Mine look more like little nested fetuses clutching their tiny fists and hoping to be born. Hang in there guys, you're going to make it! </div>
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I always find it interesting that what is hard for me is easy for you and then later gets not only easy for me, but I fall in love with it, and by then you have moved on and can't even remember its name.</div>
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Here is the mosaic by all four of us CZT's who did Cheryl's project. I love mosaics because everybody does the exact same thing, step by step, and then everyone's looks totally different. Mine wasn't finished yet, lower right, but you can see how I started out.</div>
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The day after our CZT meeting I left for Playa del Carmen, Mexico, with Stu and friends Dave and Jozeffa. Jozeffa was Zentangling up a storm and she inspired me to join in. Here are a couple of tangles I did with Jozeffa.</div>
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This one is Aurakas, one of those tangle patterns that must have center stage at all time. Don't tangle patterns have personalities, like people? This one is wrapped up in herself, but deservedly so, she is beautiful and dynamic! </div>
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She is surrounded by the Poke siblings, -leaf and -root. If you look up Pokeroot on the web, the photograph of the plant looks just like the tangle. That is amazing to me. I thought the tangle pattern was completely fanciful, complete fiction, never dreamed such a fun little fellow could be representational. </div>
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This experience was very similar to finding out that the show Vikings was based on actual Viking history, and that they really did pull off the Sack of Paris in 845AD. I only looked it up because I thought it was completely preposterous and the writers should all be fired for making up such dumb stuff that could never have really happened. I had no idea I was watching history until this plot line arose, halfway into Season 4. Goes to show you.</div>
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True confession, this Zentangle I lifted right off the box of Tangle Deck 1. It has the old stand-bys Tipple, Shattuck and Printemps with Florz at the bottom (on the floor). It's the first time I ever used Flukes, and I was surprised by how much I liked it. Lynn Mead's Tangle Decks have become very precious to me. I use them all the time for the step-outs and just for browsing around looking for the next tangle pattern to try. Thank you Lynn.</div>
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Next, I tried a pre-strung Zendala. Here I was inspired by my dear friend Jody, who was turning out gorgeous pre-strung Zendala's while we watched the Oscars. Jody has a demanding job and has become an accomplished mindful, multi-tasker. Sound like a contradiction? I don't think so, I've seen it with my own eyes.</div>
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Watching Jody made me want to the pre-strung Zendala tile, too. Finally I a round tuit. I started with Paradox in the middle paired with B'Tweed this time. Love them together. Then Munchin in three of the pointy star-arms, Flukes in another three because I hoped they would look like roof tiles and they do! and finally the last three have Hurry. Hurry seems like a tangle you could build pyramids with if needed. Watch out King Tut.</div>
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To close, here's a mosaic of Jozeffa's and my Zentangles from Mexico. You've seen my three above, the rest are gloriously hers. Go Jozeffa!! I can't remember if she inspired me to use Aurakas or vice versa. True collaboration. Love her use of Striping on the left and Flux on the right. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948086507497506165.post-88713790198170262952018-03-12T12:35:00.001-07:002018-03-12T12:47:19.944-07:00First Opus Tiles - MySwingMy last post was about MySwing, a tangle pattern I just love doing. It's funny how some patterns fit in my hand, and others just don't. All the Zentanglers I know report this phenomenon. For me, MySwing is one of the best. I like it so much, that when I was looking for a nice gift for my brother-in-law Victor, of whom I am very fond, I decided to frame and gift him with one of my favorite tiles, the first MySwing I ever did, that my CZT Cheryl Wilson showed me, and that I posted last month. Oh well, here it is again as I would like to show you the whole progression that started with giving this Zentangle away.<br />
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My next step was to do it on a black Apprentice tile with white ink from the dreamy new Sakura Gelly Roll #10 pen. It flows the way the tangle flows in my mind. And I love the ethereal glow you get when you shade with a white pencil and blend it with a tourtillion.</div>
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A little backstory: months ago I purchased a small pack of Opus tiles. Opus tiles are a Zentangle.com creation, and they are big,10.5" square! They sat on the shelf in their brown wrapper, giving me dirty looks because I was avoiding them. They were right, I just wasn't ready for my first Opus tile. I didn't want to "mess it up." It was expensive and it was gorgeous. It needed an idea worthy of such a fine material. But art starts in the back of the brain, and while doing the above Zentangles, the idea began to form that MySwing would be great on an Opus Tile. I was so happy on the day I finally took out the Opus tile out of its wrapper and covered it my MySwings. Here is Opus Tile Number 1.</div>
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I had so much fun doing this! Almost immediately upon finishing it, I thought it would look good with color. Hey, I thought I was done! But no rest for the Zentangler. Each idea is precious and sometimes I feel like I am just a crucible for the Cosmic Zentangle Intelligence. She wants to see what she wants to see next and my number was up. I could only obey.<br />
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What to use to add color? I decided to sacrifice one precious Opus tile to try out all the different coloring media that I own, so I could really see with my own two eyes what worked best. I didn't want to guess. I colored all over the Opus test tile. I tried different types of colored pencils. The waxy, Prismacolor pencils and the fluffy Stabilo CarbOthello that are more dusty and soft, like pastels. (I love these!). I tried my small set of Inktense Pencils that you draw with and then brush with water for all kinds of bleeding effects. I drew some MySwings and filled in areas from my small set of Copic markers. These professional quality markers are apparently used by cartoonists worldwide and are just great for filling in color areas with smooth consistent color. But watercolors won. Only watercolor produced the flowing color that went with the flowing tangle pattern. I tested plain watercolor, watercolor mixed with salt, mixed with alcohol, with saran wrap pressed into it while it was wet which makes wonderful strange pale streaks all over. But the salted watercolors were the smoothest and the most peaceful. They were a bit more intense than the plain ones, and they won.<br />
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I decided to leave my first Opus tile alone and I set out to create a new one with color. The color came first. This is a great way to add color to the whole Zentangle process. Put the color down first, and then let it be your string, let it show you the composition, and everything will harmonize and look great. We hope. I used a wet-into-wet technique with my good Winsor and Newton tube paints and a big fat fine #12 sable brush. I put the color down first and let it dry completely, for a couple of days in fact. Then I lay the MySwing pattern over it, honoring the color fields with the pattern. A little shading and at the end, I was happy!<br />
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I have had a hard time giving away my creations since i started doing Zentangle. I wanted a "record" of what i was doing. I was surprised that the act of giving away the MySwing tile to my brother-in-law created an emptiness in me that I could actually feel. That emptiness was soon filled by the succession of creative projects as reported here. Things evolved. Good lesson for me: let go. The little words <i>letting go</i> mean exactly the same as that big word <i>liberation</i>. When you liberate something, you let it go free. Enough hanging on. Come on over and choose a Zentangle that you would like to take home. Maybe we can even find you a frame.<br />
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What better thing to do with ones life than to litter the world with beautiful objects?<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948086507497506165.post-63869206851567819702018-01-21T15:55:00.001-08:002018-01-21T15:55:16.857-08:00MySwingI love MySwing,, a tangle from Simone Menzel, CZT. It was shown to me by my Zentangle teacher Cheryl Wilson. Thanks Simone and Cheryl!<br />
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I am gearing up to do an Opus tile (large format) for the first time and want to use MySwing. Here are my 2 efforts of today:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948086507497506165.post-71769744997314701862018-01-19T12:34:00.003-08:002018-01-19T12:34:43.010-08:00String Theory - Random Objects Diva Challenge #347This week's Diva Challenge was to find some objects around the house and trace them onto a 3.5" tile to make a string. Here is my set of objects:<br />
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This includes my cute little purple garden shears, a round lid from gummy bears at the Mexico City St Regis (absolute lap of luxury!), a gummy bear himself, a nail file and a 3Z tile.<br />
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Here's what I did with it. I should have taken a picture of the string, but wasn't that smart at the time. Too soon old, too late smart. What the heck does that mean? I don't really know.<br />
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You can see the fat blade of my garden shears at the lower left and the 3Z tile right above it. The drama black shape in the middle with a weird Crescent Moon is the gummy bear outline and the jar lid is the partial circle at the upper left with Frumkey in it. I do love Frumkey. I used opus with an aura, and on the right is Finery. It looks better when there is more than column. But I still like it. Otherwise, you will find Zinger, Bales, and Flux (Maria's version). The Diva used a wonderful tangle that I tried to figure out that looks like bales of grasses. Don't know what it is, does anyone know the name? If so, please leave a comment. Have a great week.</div>
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For the past 12 days, I have been tangling every day along with the Zentangle Blog's <i>The Twelve Days of Zentangle</i>. I was a few days behind, but that didn't really matter. It has been very enjoyable, and I have learned a lot. The above tile is my favorite of all the twelve projects. In this blog post, I am going to talk about each day's project just a little. </div>
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The Twelve Days of Zentangle are organized around the history of Zentangle, since it was first invented by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas back in 2003. Over the years since then, many new materials and approaches have been introduced by Rick and Maria. They organized the individual projects for each of the Twelve Days around this history. </div>
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I purchased their Project Pack #2, which has all the materials to complete the entire twelve days. You don't have to do that, but I recommend it. It was nice to know that I had just the right pen, just the right tiles, etc. The pack includes the new Micron PN, a fabulous tool for Zentangling, now replacing the micron 01 in my mind. And the new GellyRoll pens where the white gel ink flows with heavenly ease. What an improvement!</div>
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If you took an Introduction to Zentangle class, the first thing you did was create the famous "Tile Number One," designed to introduce you to basic Zentangle concepts. You started with Crescent Moon and learned about aura-ing. Then you did Hollibaugh and learned about Drawing Behind. Printemps taught you how wonderful a simple repeating figure could be, and finally Bales was your first grid pattern. I would call Day One of the Twelve Days of Zentangle Tile Number One on Steroids. The crazy Crescent Moon is at the lower left. Hollibaugh was illustrated by Mr. Hollibaugh himself, but with curvy aura-ed Hollibaugh boards instead of the normal straight ones we all know and love. Printemps got little perfs inside and Bales went a bit wonky with some nice dark spots. Maria put the crazy sprout in the middle and it was off to the races. It was fun to revisit Tile Number One.<br />
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On day two Molly Hollibaugh led us in making a construction that celebrated the introduction of the black tile. It's fun tangling on multiple tiles and cutting them out and gluing them together into forms. The top diamond shape is a black tile with the center cut out and four corners inserted into the white tile beneath, tab-a into-slot-b-style. A friend admired this very genuinely. I had set an intention to pay attention to, and if possible to act upon generous impulses during the holidays. Since I felt the impulse to give it to her, i did. This was a departure for me, as I have every Zentangle I have ever done in a book. Time to let some go and get on with it. What better goal in life than to disperse beautiful things throughtout the world.</div>
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Rick celebrated the Apprentice tile, a slightly larger tile than the standard one. He also illustrated Diva Dance in a new way, with unexpected long tendrils of Diva Dance Rock 'N Roll weaving themselves under Diva Dance Walz. Diva Dance was named in honor of the Diva of the Diva Challenge, which I love entering each week on <a href="http://www.iamthedivaczt.com/">www.iAmTheDivaCZT.com</a>. That aside, I found this whole Zentangle a little creepy, like it was going to come alive and cause a lot of problems any minute. </div>
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This day of Zentangle celebrated the black Zendala. Once again we used scissors and glue. The white Zendala tile has two butterfly shaped cut outs so you can see the black Zendala beneath, and the Knightsbridge tangle pattern done in white fills that space. Pepper spirals look like candy fun and kissing Mooka's reach and twine. I don't think my version quite captured the magic, but I had a good time doing it. </div>
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Day Six celebrated the introduction of the Renaissance Tile, so named because of its beautiful color, frequently found in Renaissance work. Rick and Maria also introduced a new tangle pattern here, called Toodles. I found myself putting a square around my previously unbounded chop and really liking it. I'm happy that Zentanglers change their chops frequently without anyone considering it a sign of being fickle. Art changes, life changes, chops change. Vive La Change.</div>
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On day seven we celebrated the renaissance Zendala. This was a fun Zentangle to make. We started with a pre-strung tile, something I had not done before. We did some circular figures in the center. Then we filled all the individual areas with a kind of Paradox fragment, using both black and brown microns.</div>
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On day eight, we celebrated the introduction of the Bijou tile, the smaller tile that is named for Bijou the snail. This little character was a stowaway in Rick and Maria's luggage after a trip to Paris. When they found the snail in their luggage, they were charmed by him and named him Bijou. Bijou has lots to say and thus many aphorisms are attributed to him. The funniest part of this story is that many animal rights people complained to Rick and Maria. </div>
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I enjoyed making a crown with a Bijou tile, then cutting off the bottom corner. This crown is mounted on our bottle of Johnny Walker Red, which seemed appropriate. </div>
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I loved this one. Celebrating the renaissance and black Bijou tiles, we cut and glued to make a combo renaissance/black tile. Then we combined 4 of them into this mosaic. </div>
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Hands down, this is my favorite. It reminds me of my black watch plaid pleated skirt that i loved so much in high school. Combine it with a pair of white bobbie sox, brown penny loafers (with the penny) and a blue oxford button down shirt under a navy blue cashmere cardigan, the kind with a ribbon down the front for the buttons. I was in preppy heaven. At long last I had clothes that let me fit in. But that's another story...</div>
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If you look, you can see that the large pattern over the entire tile is Rick's Paradox. But then it is treated as a reticula with the stripes fragment filling in each section. I love how the white pencil shading makes it glow.</div>
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We cut slits into 3 renaissance 3Z tiles to make a tree. Using the plate string idea, (see my Delft blue plates post from a few months ago) we drew arcs as our string and decorated the tree with tangles. The tangles were all fragments from the<i> Zentangle Primer</i>, each identified by it's letter/number id code. These few pages of the Primer kind of expanded the Zentangle Universe exponentially, at least for me. I highly recommend this book.<br />
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Here's to the Zentangle Universe. To all its kind and generous inhabitants and to our kind and generous leaders Rick and Maria and family. I am so happy to have found this special, gentle, creative and positive world. Gives me hope. Happy New Year to you all.<br />
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This week's Diva Challenge #344 (<a href="http://www.iamthedivaczt.com/" target="_blank">www.iAmTheDivaCZT.com</a>) was to use AfterGlo, the star-like pattern that you can see above. I have been working my way through Project Pack 01, which I highly recommend as lots of fun and a good learning tool. You can find it <a href="http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Zentangle-Newsletter----Project-Pack--01-Videos-and-more-.html?soid=1101168872594&aid=b5hwv-3b7BU" target="_blank">here</a>. It includes nine different videos that guide you through making wonderful Zentangles that will inspire your own creativity and designs. </div>
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Project Pack 01 emphasizes using the new Sakura white Gelly Roll pens on black tiles. The pens have been re-designed so they are now fabulous. The ink flows beautifully without any skipping. The pack comes with all the supplies you need to follow along with the videos, including 3 different widths of Gelly Roll pens. You don't have to buy the pack to participate, you can just pick up the supplies yourself and follow along. But the pack is nice, because you know you have all the pieces in place. </div>
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The Diva Challenge tangle pattern AfterGlo looked Christmassy to me, so I remembered <a href="http://tanglepatterns.com/2016/12/how-to-draw-meriberries.html" target="_blank">Merriberries</a>, which was designed my Zentangle mentor Cheryl Wilson, CZT. I added in a few Merriberries, Those are the holly-like shapes with the white berries in the center. Finally peppermint seemed like it could hold its own in a Christmas theme so in went tangle pattern Pepper. </div>
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At that point I felt that things did not look integrated, so I drew randomly sized, small orbs all over the remaining black spaces to tie it all together. I have always loved how a million tiny circles make a beautiful texture that brings all the other elements together. </div>
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Today I felt like being guided along in my art work. Some type of project or lesson that tells me what to do next. This is something I turn to on days when opening up to "whatever happens" is hard. Which it just is, sometimes. It's a paradox because I enjoy art work tremendously. I believe in it as a wonder of continuous, lifetime discovery, and I love sharing it with people. Nonetheless. There is a part of me that wants to just get away and not explore the unknown. Let's cook or do some cleaning. Don't arouse any demons that might be lurking in the whatever happens.</div>
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This makes me wonder if my childhood had been more fortunate, perhaps that feeling wouldn't be there. Oh well, I got the life I got and I am not complaining. Bad childhood, great life! I will always be grateful to the therapists that helped me sort it out. I've always felt like I paid my dues before I was 10 years old. From then on, things just improved. Slowly, little by little, I came out of the snow storm.</div>
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So by now you are gathering that today was a "JUST TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" day. I had gotten the new Zentangle Project Pack 01 in the mail. I didn't order it, and I don't know how it got to me. But there it was, full of the new purportedly fabulously improved Sakura Gelly Roll pens and black tiles of every shape and size. So I tried it out. The projects are a series of videos with step by step instructions you can tangle along with.. ZT Daughters Molly Hollibaugh and Martha Huggins are the excellent guides. You don't need the kit to tangle along, and you don't have to do them with black tiles, they would be very successful with white tiles. <a href="http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Zentangle-Newsletter----Project-Pack--01-Videos-and-more-.html?soid=1101168872594&aid=b5hwv-3b7BU" target="_blank">The instructions are in Rick and Maria's Zentangle Newsletter, here</a>. </div>
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My friend Patty says we should call that tangle pattern up above HollyBales. It's a variation on Bales with diamonds instead of rice shapes. What I love about Bales is how the places where many lines meet, soon begin to glow. Of course, we know a good thing, so we shade those places and make them even more glowing.</div>
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I really like HollyBales. We did Bales at the recent <i>Intro to Zentangle</i> class in Reno this week. I love how beautiful the work is from that day. Here's our mosaic, below. Class participants were many good friends and a new friend, too: Christy Tews, Patty Charles, Lynn Newhall, Debby Enos, Gayle Robinson, Kathy Schwerin, and Ron Sutton. Seven tiles, seven different takes on Bales and the other patterns. </div>
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I love that about Zentangle; the patterns are pre-structured, but each person's creativity transforms the simple steps into something unique. And this refers back to the discussion above. Even when people have step by step instructions, the way they follow them is all their own. So it's still whatever happens. It's always whatever happens. Here's to the WHATEVER HAPPENS!!</div>
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This week's Diva Challenge (<a href="http://www.iamthedivaczt.com/" target="_blank">www.iAmTheDivaCZT.com</a>) was to use tangle pattern Wibble, a tangle pattern designed by Shawna Martin. I did not fall in love with drawing this one, instead I found it hard to wrap my brain around it and didn't feel great about how it looked. I ended up using it as a border and coloring it in with one of my favorite combinations of colors, green and violet, the IRIS colors. I used Copic markers for the first time on a Zentangle tile and discovered that they bleed a bit on the fine Fabiano paper. To make up for the wobbly Wibble, I used two favorite easy peasy patterns in the middle, Sand Swirl and Sanibelle. </div>
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I was very fortunate to attend the 28th Certified Zentangle Training (CZT) in Providence, RI, in June. I was extremely happy for the entire four days, sitting in a large room with 108 other <strike>fanatics</strike> enthusiasts, drawing beautiful Zentangles guided by Rick and Maria and their daughters Molly and Martha. After 10 months exploring Zentangles on my own and with the kind and inspired guidance of my teacher (CZT16 Cheryl Wilson from Grass Valley), I was very excited to find a large, world-wide, supportive and positive Zentangle community.<br />
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On Day One, as I entered the very first class of our seminar, I took an empty seat between two friendly looking women. I introduced myself as Mary Helen from Auburn, CA. The woman on my right turned out to live in Placerville, just an hour's drive from me. And the woman on my left lives in Rocklin, a mere 20 minutes away. As far as I was concerned, this was something between an amazing coincidence and a sign from the Angels of Zentangle.<br />
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About two months later, remembering how much I enjoyed the larger Zentangle community, I looked these same women up on the<a href="https://www.zentangle.com/teachers.php" target="_blank"> CZT Index</a> and contacted them. We ended up forming a group of five local CZTs. (Local in California means within an hour’s drive.) The group includes myself, Cheryl, Lynne, Chris and Alison. All are artists and/or craftswomen par excellence. It's a thrill to be in a group with them. We meet monthly, rotating through one another's homes, with the hostess providing a project for us all to do.<br />
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Yesterday four of us met way out in the country at the studio of one of the women. She had attended Rick and Maria's recent <a href="https://1440.org/program/rick-robertsmaria-thomas-zentangle-drawing-from-within/" target="_blank">Zentangle: Beyond the Basics seminar</a> at the new 1440 Multiveristy, near Santa Cruz. She wanted to share a project that Maria had guided them through. Maria had used a Zendala (round) tile, but otherwise the project was very similar. My result is above.<br />
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In advance, our hostess had prepared for each of us two Zentangle tiles, glued together. The Renaissance tile (beige) had cut outs so that you could see the black tile under it. We drew kissing Mooka in the middle between the cut outs, and tangled in white Sakura Gelly Roll pens on the black to make the black and white grid of Knightsbridge. We added some auras, and the embellishment of small circles around the border. We filled in around the Mooka with a brown 01 Micron pen. Only three tangles, but such a lovely result. Here is the mosaic of all our tiles. I feel so privileged and happy to be part of this dynamic and creative group! What an inspiration!
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This week's challenge on <a href="http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com/">http://IamTheDivaCZT.blogspot.com</a> was to use the tangle pattern Tint, which you see as the big blossom in the lower left corner. This tangle pattern was designed by CZT Henrike Bratz. and while poking around her website learning to draw Tint, I discovered another tangle pattern that she created, Crux, the grid pattern in the upper left.</div>
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I'm still in love with the patterns used in the Delft project, so i used Hennadrum in the middle and Andante on the right. And of course, the wonderful blue pens. Shading with Stabilo's CarbOthello pastel pencils. Where did they get that name? Who put carbs together with Othello? Oh well, they are wonderful pencils for shading. The tourtillion spreads them around nicely.</div>
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Tomorrow is our local Democratic Party Annual Fundraiser. I have never been that active in local politics, but this year felt strongly I needed to contribute as I feel very concerned for the great experiment in Democracy that is the United States. So I volunteered to be the coordinator and we have 100 people coming. Many wonderful people contributing lots of talent and energy. I am up to my eyeballs in catering, budgets, paper cups, a silent auction, ticket sales, reasonably well known and quite interesting guest speakers. It's all very exciting! </div>
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I purchased a kit on Etsy designed by Marguerite Samana, CZT, with step-by-step instructions on how to make an Zendala inspired by the blue and white crockery from Delft. I learned that the Dutch town of Delft produced this beautiful pottery in the 1600's, as an affordable alternative to the Chinese porcelain that had gotten very expensive. Between 1650 and 1750 there were over one hundred entrepreneurs making Delftware. Today there is one left. The demand dropped off in about 1800 and the manufacture of blue pottery moved to England.<br />
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The Zendala is above and you can see the borders for four imaginary Delft plates stacked one above the other.<br />
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I loved working with the blue Micron pens and using several different blue CarbOthelleo pastel pencils from Stabilo for shading. So I decided to do this week's Diva challenge #332, a square within a square, with the materials I had used for Delft. Tangle patterns here are an outer border of Flux, four corners of Crescent Moon, and inner square border of XYP (pronounced "zip,") and Frunky in the middle. I love doing Zentangles with color.<br />
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This week's Diva challenge was to tangle ribbon patterns into a "Plate Zentangle, so called because when you put four of them together it makes a dinner plate that you might love to have made up for you by Wedgewood or Limoges. (You can read about the challenge <a href="http://www.iamthedivaczt.com/" target="_blank">here</a> )</div>
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I used Funky in the smallest circle, then Agni, a new tangle for me which i really enjoyed. Then came Rainbow Bridge and the outermost ring is Pach. Pach always reminds me of the paper chains we made in first grade, so I feel fond of it:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDROIkNyycZmqkppkBgZ_D8dSjY-2U8bsFi-qLx5SdbabMuyUnsprtsD5KevDBhXVK15yfj_f02ajIBKot2xYrQvRHuGgxEz2aT7gtxnko7Wk5NucMAnjtisMWQcmhhFCggnAl4aiQecKe/s1600/pach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="113" data-original-width="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDROIkNyycZmqkppkBgZ_D8dSjY-2U8bsFi-qLx5SdbabMuyUnsprtsD5KevDBhXVK15yfj_f02ajIBKot2xYrQvRHuGgxEz2aT7gtxnko7Wk5NucMAnjtisMWQcmhhFCggnAl4aiQecKe/s1600/pach.jpg" /></a></div>
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We all made plates at CZT28 this past June, 2017, all 110 of us tangling the same patterns in the same positions. Then we put them all together in a big mosaic of plates. I was amazed at how beautiful it all turned out to be. I don't have a picture of that mosaic. If you have it, please post a link! Thanks!</div>
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